How Long to Read Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance

How Long Does it Take to Read Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance?

It takes the average reader 5 hours to read Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance by Joseph Luzzi

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 “Brilliantly conceived and executed, Botticelli's Secret is a riveting search for buried treasure.” —Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence’s art world, he was commissioned by a member of the city’s powerful Medici family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all one hundred cantos of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the ultimate visual homage to that “divine” poet. This sparked a gripping encounter between poet and artist, between the religious and the secular, between the earthly and the evanescent, recorded in exquisite drawings by Botticelli that now enchant audiences worldwide. Yet after a lifetime of creating masterpieces including Primavera and The Birth of Venus, Botticelli declined into poverty and obscurity. His Dante project remained unfinished. Then the drawings vanished for over four hundred years. The once famous Botticelli himself was forgotten. The nineteenth-century rediscovery of Botticelli’s Dante drawings brought scholars and art lovers to their knees: this work embodied everything the Renaissance had come to mean. From Botticelli’s metaphorical rise from the dead in Victorian England to the emergence of eagle-eyed connoisseurs like Bernard Berenson and Herbert Horne in the early twentieth century, and even the rescue of precious art during World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the posthumous story of Botticelli’s Dante drawings is, if anything, even more dramatic than their creation. A combination of artistic detective story and rich intellectual history, Botticelli’s Secret shows not only how the Renaissance came to life, but also how Botticelli’s art helped bring it about—and, most important, why we need the Renaissance and all that it stands for today.

How long is Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance?

Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance by Joseph Luzzi is 300 pages long, and a total of 75,000 words.

This makes it 101% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance aloud.

What Reading Level is Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance?

Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

Where Can I Buy Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance?

Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance by Joseph Luzzi is sold by several retailers and bookshops. However, Read Time works with Amazon to provide an easier way to purchase books.

To buy Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance by Joseph Luzzi on Amazon click the button below.